Power Systems Specialist Engineer

Eaton’s Electrical sector is currently seeking a Power Systems Specialist Engineer to join our team. This position is hybrid and can be based at one of our facilities and offers benefits from Day1.

What You’ll Do

The primary purpose of this position is to provide applied engineering and technical consultation for customers in the areas of power systems studies, power quality analysis, substation design and training.

Eaton's Electrical Services & Systems team offers a comprehensive portfolio of services tailored for every stage of a power system’s life cycle—whether it’s design, build, or support. Our services integrate and optimize the elements of a power system to make sure it’s aligned with business goals. We can help keep your power system safe, efficient, reliable, and up-to-date.

Eaton has the largest and most experienced team of power system engineers in the industry, with industry-standard software and advanced modeling and analysis capabilities at their fingertips. This team brings extensive skills and experiences to power system analysis and design. Active participation in technical societies such as IEEE and collaboration with a variety of utilities and industries ensures that our engineers are knowledgeable about today’s cutting edge engineering techniques. We assist customers at every stage of the power system: from substation and distribution system design to renewable energy and smart grid engineering, from safety and reliability-focused studies to power quality and grounding related audits and analyses.

In This Function You Will

• Ability to run major studies and projects unassisted
• Mentor other engineers, as applicable
• Provide technical solutions to customers that may involve equipment design or upgrades, testing of equipment, solutions relating to increase safety, reliability, or efficiency
• Self-management of assigned projects and job cost accountability to perform work within budgeted cost estimates.
• Interpret specs and customer inquiries and design technical proposals and pricing for customers
• Provide applied engineering and technical consultation for customers in the areas of power systems studies, power quality analysis, substation design and training.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Must have a P.Eng. License
• Minimum of 5 years of work experience power systems
• Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering
• Minimum of 8 years of work experience in the electrical industry
• Legally authorized to work in the Canada without company sponsorship

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in the following areas:
• Alternate Energy
• Design of Distribution System, Substation and Protection & Control
• Experience performing power quality measurements, troubleshooting, and analysis is highly desirable
• Advanced experience in multi-function protection relays setting files and logic files.
• Harmonic Analysis
• Experience in testing, troubleshooting, evaluating, and servicing electrical distribution and control systems is highly desirable
• Active in Standards Development
• Experience with protective relays is highly desirable
• PLC / Automation
• Power Quality Measurements and Analysis
• Bachelor Degree focused in electrical power systems or PhD
• Technical Paper Authorship
• Short-Circuit Analysis, LV/MV Coordination
• IEEE Senior Membership
• Active in Local IEEE
• Arc Flash studies and mitigations
• Knowledge of engineering standards including CSA, NEC, NESC, IEEE and ANSI
• Ground grid design
• Experience using Power System modelling packages like SKM, ETAP, EazyPower, CYME etc

Position Criteria

• Action Oriented
• Problem Solving
• Customer Focus

We are committed to ensuring equal employment opportunities for job applicants and employees. Our recruitment processes use balanced selection criteria and avoid unlawful discrimination against applicants on the basis of their age, colour, disability, marital status, national origin, gender, gender identity, genetic information, race or racial origin, religion, sexual orientation or any other status protected or required by law.

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